Homework #21 - Scams - Due Thursday Nov 18, 4PM

Turn in this assignment via email (vern@cs.berkeley.edu, plain text preferred) by the due date, with the term Homework in the Subject.

Note that the assignment is due later than usual. Also, I anticipate that I'll be sending feedback on writeups over the weekend rather than by Thursday night as usual.

  1. Read the paper Examining the impact of website take-down on phishing, Tylor Moore and Richard Clayton, Proc. Anti-Phishing Working Group eCrime Researchers Summit, 2007

    Briefly write up your views of:

    1. What are the main contributions of this paper?

    2. What parts of the paper do you find unclear? (optional)

    3. What parts of the paper are questionable? (That is, you think a conclusion may be wrong, an approach or evaluation technically flawed, or data ill-presented.)

  2. Frame an aspect of Internet cybercrime/scams that interests you (different from what you discussed in the previous homework, and not directly involving botnets). Discuss the research issues it presents in terms of what you would like to understand about it, how you might go about investigating (and validating) it, and what difficulties (technical, logistical, ethical, legal) the undertaking might present.